The San Carlos Hotel project was finally begun by Charles Harris and Dwight D. Heard who purchased the property from the Babbitts.

[3] The hotel was state of the art with air conditioning (the first in Phoenix), elevators, circulating chilled water in the rooms and steam heat.

Harris moved his family into the roof-top bungalow (or penthouse) and worked diligently to keep the San Carlos Hotel open during the Great Depression.

Over the past 43 years, Melikian and his family have owned, operated and lovingly restored the San Carlos Hotel to its original splendor.

The San Carlos had its share of celebrities such as Mae West, Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, Marilyn Monroe and Gene Autry.

The article's headline read "Pretty blonde jumps from (the) San Carlos (hotel) early today."

Based on what she wrote in her suicide note, it was believed the 22-year-old woman was physically abused by her boyfriend, a bellboy at the Westward Ho.

The hotel can be briefly seen in the opening shot of Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho as the camera pans the skyline of downtown Phoenix.